Getting Started With Office 365 CLIFeb 17, 2018. Microsoft keep on giving surprises to developers by adding more tools / services in clout front, especially in Office 365. Recently a new open source cross platform service called Office 365 is introduced, to run the commands from any platform against SharePoint Online.

Download User License Information For PowerApps And Microsoft FlowFeb 16, 2018. PowerApps is one of the services available in the Office 365 environment that enables us to create apps or forms for business and other uses without coding experience. We can connect against external data sources like SQL, SharePoint, Salesforce, etc... to develop an application. PowerApps has its own data source called Common Data Service.

Creating Comment Form Using React, Redux, Webpack, BabelFeb 16, 2018. In this article, we will create a simple comment form that displays a list of comments and allows the user to enter a new comment using React, Redux, Webpack, Babel. We will be using below Tools/libraries to build the application.

Control Microsoft Teams Using PowerShellFeb 15, 2018. For a developer, Microsoft Graph API will make life easier, but for IT professionals, it is difficult to control the Teams application. To help them, Microsoft has come up with a PowerShell Module to control the Microsoft Teams.

Building SPA Using AngularFeb 15, 2018. I have created SPA using Angular.js because I had requirement where user can update monthly activities corresponding to their respective villages. I named the application as Continuous Quality Improvement Tracker (CQI).

How To Get Started With Always Encrypted For Beginners - Part ThreeFeb 15, 2018. A few weeks ago, I wrote Part 1 and 2 of this series, which was a beginner’s guide to Always Encrypted. In part 3, I am going to go over what road blocks I ran into when trying to implement this solution for a client. The goal of the project was to prevent the DBA from being able to view salary information, while still allowing the application to function without issue.

Moq - Unit Test In .NET Core App Using Mock ObjectFeb 14, 2018. The Unit test is a block of code that helps us in verifying the expected behavior of the other code in isolation; i.e., there is no dependency between the tests. This is good way to test the application code before it goes for quality assurance (QA). There are three different test frameworks for Unit Testing supported by ASP.NET Core: MSTest, XUnit, and NUnit. All Unit test frameworks, offer a similar end goal and help us to write unit tests that are simpler, easier and faster.

Application Initialization And Configuration In ASP.NET VersionsFeb 14, 2018. Most of us might have worked upon various versions of ASP.NET and few of you must be aware about the major changes happened in application initialization and configuration phase. In this article, I&#39;ll be outlining few of those major changes starting from ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core 1.x and ASP.NET 2.x.

React Installation ProcessFeb 14, 2018. In this article, we will learn about the installation process of React with a new application as well as with an existing application.

Simple Visual Analytics Using Logic AppsFeb 13, 2018. Logic apps are one such way to get started if you’re not familiar with coding and looking to work your way around to automate your application processing. Logic apps have various usabilities with simple action flow creation. Today we will be looking at Visual Analytics using Twitter and Power BI on Logic App.

Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) - A Beginner's GuideFeb 13, 2018. Operations Management Suite (also known as OMS) is a collection of cloud-based services for managing your on-premises and cloud environments from one single place. Rather than deploying and managing on-premises resources, OMS components are entirely hosted in Azure. In simple words, what basically happens is that OMS goes and talks to different servers, applications in your environment, collects information about how they&#39;re doing, consolidates this information in the form of nice colorful graphics and searchable records, after that presents it to you in one single, convenient place, and it doesn&#39;t matter where your servers or applications are running, Azure, AWS, on-premises or which operating system they&#39;re running on, Windows or Linux, it just works. Configuration is minimal, and you can be up and running literally in a matter of minutes.

Custom URL Scheme In AndroidFeb 13, 2018. In this article, we will learn how to open Android Application from your browser or hyperlink, if it is installed in android phones.

How To Get Started With Always Encrypted For Beginners - Part TwoFeb 12, 2018. In this post we will pick up where we left off in Part 1, if you haven’t read that please go back and do so. Now that we have encrypted our columns, it’s time to take a look at how we decrypt them inside SQL Server Management Studio or through our applications. You’ll be surprised to see how easy it is.

Building Video Indexer Mobile Application Using Cognitive ServiceFeb 10, 2018. Microsoft introduced the public preview of Video Indexer as a part of Cognitive Service. Previously, we used Video API but now it&#39;s replaced with Video Indexer. Video Indexer automatically extracts the metadata and builds intelligent innovative AI applications based on Video and Audio.

Unit Test In .NET Core Application Using NUnitFeb 08, 2018. There are three different test frameworks that are supported by ASP.NET Core for unit testing - MSTest, xUnit, and NUnit. These allow us to test our code in a consistent way. In this article, I will explain about the unit test using NUnit.

Node.js Package Manager VS2017Feb 08, 2018. In this post, we are going to explore how to manage front-end dependencies with NodeJS sample web application using Visual Studio 2017.

Unit Test In .NET Core Application Using XUnitFeb 07, 2018. There are three different test frameworks for Unit Testing supported by ASP.NET Core: MSTest, xUnit, and NUnit; that allow us to test our code in a consistent way. In this article, I will explain about the xUnit framework.
the XUnit is an open souce test framework and main focus of this framework are extensibility and flexibility. It follows more community focus to being expand.

Cookie Authentication With ASP.NET Core 2.0Feb 07, 2018. Authentication is an integral part of web security. ASP.NET Core provides multiple ways to implement authentication in a web application. We will be looking into on such technique - Cookie authentication in this article.

SQL Sequence Vs Identity ColumnFeb 06, 2018. Let’s take a look at what a Sequence is in relation to an Identity Column in SQL Server. Did you know Sequence even existed? I didn’t until I was asked about them. It’s amazing how much you can skip over and never notice in SSMS. See this little folder, ever notice it under Programmability in Management Studio. Yep it’s there, SQL Server has this very handy thing called Sequences. Sequences are a relatively new feature that have only existed since SQL Server 2012, but have long existed in Oracle (where there a no identity columns).

ASP.NET Web API With SwaggerFeb 06, 2018. ASP.NET Web API is an extensible framework for building HTTP based services that can be accessed in different applications on different platforms such as web, windows, mobile etc. It is like a web service or WCF service but the exception is that it only supports HTTP protocol.

Introduction To Microsoft Cloud App SecurityFeb 06, 2018. Security is the million-dollar question for organizations who are moving to the cloud from on-premise. They want their data and applications to be as secure as possible from attacks like phishing, hacking, data breaches, insecure APIs, and recent threats that have come up, namely Ransomware and WannaCry. Like other IT giants, Microsoft is working hard to get its cloud security tight using various tools and technologies, and one of them is Cloud App Security.

Send E-Mail Android Application TutorialFeb 06, 2018. Hello all, in this article we will learn how to create an Android app which will send email using any email client. In this tutorial we are using the intent service of android which will help us to send email. Intent is very useful in android development as it helps us to call services which we need like calling, sms, gps, etc. It has a wider role in android.

Working With Async Main In C# 7.1Feb 05, 2018. This article explains the async main feature introduced as part of C# 7.1 and demonstrates how to use it in application development.

Hello World Android Application Using KotlinFeb 01, 2018. Google officially announced Kotlin as a first class language for Android development at Google I/O 2017. From Android Studio 3.0, Kotlin is included as Support for Android Studio. In this post, we will learn Kotlin for the development of Android applications in Android Studio.

Blob Security On Azure Storage - Part ThreeFeb 01, 2018. Shared Access Signature is shortly called as SAS, SAS is a URI that grants restricted access rights to Azure Storage resources, you can provide a SAS to clients who should not be trusted with your azure storage account key but whom you wish to delegate access to certain storage account resources. By distributing a shared access signature URI to these clients, you can grant them access to resource for a specific period time. The Service – Level SAS delegates access to a multiple storage services like blob, files, tables and queues.

How Can You Integrate A JSON Framework With iOSFeb 01, 2018. JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON in short, is commonly used for representing structural data and data interchange in client-server applications, serving as an alternative to XML. It has grown in popularity as it is simple to use and human-readable. It is technically a part of the JavaScript language and provides a way to serialize JavaScript objects. It is supported in a wide variety of programming languages. A lot of the services used every day have JSON-based APIs.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 IdentityJan 30, 2018. In a previous post, I showed how to use cookie authentication middleware to protect your web application. ASP.NET Core also provides a richer set of services, called Identity, to work with user authentication and management scenarios. For instance, in addition to authentication and password hashing, it provides features for registering new users, creating forgot &amp; reset password tokens and their validation, two-factor authentication and authentication using external providers.

Continuous Integration Using TeamCity And Docker For ASP.NET CoreJan 29, 2018. Please read the previous posts before continuing with this one. I have discussed the basics of Docker and shown how to deploy simple and multiple applications using Docker. In this post, I will use the code from the first post and demonstrate the continuous integration with TeamCity.

Azure WebApp - Rollback Your Deployment Using Deployment SlotJan 29, 2018. We generally find issues in our deployed application while it is in production. This is a really awkward situation in the development cycle. It is also painful for the customer. I am going to discuss the solution to this issue in this article.

Azure VM Migration Between SubscriptionsJan 29, 2018. Azure VM migration between the subscriptions is quite easy. Some of the organizations will have dedicated subscriptions for testing\POC of new applications. Once these applications are validated successfully, the IT administrators might need to move these VM &amp; dependent Azure resources to the production subscription. Azure portal provides a very convenient option to migrate the resources between different subscriptions. The following steps help with the steps to migrate the resources from one subscription to another.

Getting Started With The Video Indexer Using Microsoft Cognitive ServicesJan 29, 2018. Microsoft introduced the public preview of Video Indexer as a part of Cognitive Service. Previously, we used Video API but now it&#39;s replaced with Video Indexer. Video Indexer automatically extracts the metadata and builds intelligent innovative applications based on Video and Audio.

Slider View In Xamarin.iOSJan 29, 2018. In this article, we will create a Xamarin iOS application that will create the slider view using the page control and scroll view.

Xamarin iOS AlertJan 28, 2018. In this article, we will create a Xamarin iOS application. We will learn how to use UIAlert Controller in order to give messages to the user and ask what operations the user wants to proceed with. This application will contain three buttons, clicking on which will open an alert, which may be a simple alert, an alert with actions, or an alert action sheet.

Cache Tag Helper In ASP.NET Core MVCJan 25, 2018. Caching tag helper can improve the performance and scalability of the application dramatically and it cache the data into the internal ASP.NET Core cache provider.

Xamarin.Forms - PagesJan 23, 2018. In the previous chapter, I explained how you can prepare your environment for Android or iOS application development, in this chapter I will start presenting the structure of our page in Xamarin.Forms.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Implementing A Third Party Web APIJan 22, 2018. A common task for a developer when working with or building an application is implementing and interacting with APIs. In this post we will look at what an API is. We will then move onto creating our own .NET Core 2.0 Web API that implements a 3rd party Web API.

Top 10 New Features Of ASP.NET Core 2.0Jan 22, 2018. .NET is now .NET Core and known as cross-platform and open source platform where you can build your all types of applications. An application could be a web app, desktop app, mobile app or gaming app. All type apps can be created using a single platform and it’s none other than .NET Core.

Top 5 Trending Web Development Frameworks In 2018Jan 22, 2018. Web development has grown rapidly in the past few years and it will continue to grow for the next several years. Today, there are more applications moving to the Web and the cloud than ever before.

Sharing Data To Third-Party ServicesJan 20, 2018. The ActivityViewController is a controller that allows the current application user to share the data in the form of text, images etc easily between the current application and services. There are a number of services such as social networks, email, and sms that are provided by the operating system where we can share the data easily.

First Application In ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0Jan 20, 2018. Recently Microsoft announced anew version of Asp.Net Core and that is Asp.Net Core 2.0, which has new and amazing features which not only improve performance as well as increase productivity and enhance your application making it more robust and reliable.

Garbage Collector And Destructor In C#Jan 19, 2018. Garbage collector looks for an instance/object which is not required anymore and treats these objects/instances as ready to destroy. Then, it makes a call to the destructor to release the memory and deallocate the resources.

Upgrading Your Application In Azure Managed KubernetesJan 18, 2018. In the previous article, we deployed an ASP.NET Core 2.0 API app in AKS (Azure Managed Kubernetes). Now, let&#39;s quickly look into how to upgrade the application when there is a change in code. Please make sure you read the previous article to follow through this one.

Activity Indicator In Xamarin.iOSJan 17, 2018. In this article, we are going to create a simple xamarin.Ios application that will have the activity indicating some background task is going on. We will use activity indicator that will animate on the specific duration indicating some calculation, or functionality is executing on background. It lets the user know some background task is going on.

Toolbar In Xamarin.iOS Application ViewJan 17, 2018. In this article, we are going to create Xamarin application that contains toolbar item with respective tools and functionality. Tools like add, edit, refresh, search in form of icon or text can be applied on the toolbar and the required specific functionality can be added with its event.

XAML Progress Bar In Xamarin.FormsJan 17, 2018. Long running tasks in any application make the application or software non-responsive. So keep the user updated about the running task and also keep the application responsive during long running tasks.

Segmented Control In Xamarin.iOSJan 16, 2018. In this article, we are going to create a Xamarin iOS application that contains UI Segmented control that let the user select the value between the certain range of values. We will create a simple application that contains the set of values and a user can select values among the available values.

An Introduction To Q#Jan 15, 2018. In this article, I will be explaining about Q# - the new programming language introduced by Microsoft for quantum computing. We will understand the data type, expressions, and statements of Q# with the help of code snippets.

Building A Tabbed Application In Xamarin iOS ApplicationJan 15, 2018. A tabbed application is a kind of app which has a bunch of buttons at the bottom of your iPhone. When you tap any button, it changes to a different page. We will learn how we can develop this functionality in an iOS app.

Basics Of Angular And Its Versions - Part TwoJan 15, 2018. Module is nothing but a package like a package in Java, a namespace in C# and like a header-file in C / C++. Java, C#, and C++ have their own modularity system which contains classes, interfaces, enumerations etc. In the same way, Angular also has its own modularity system called NgModules which helps to organize an application into adhesive blocks of functionality. Every Angular application should have at least one NgModule and the root module is called AppModule.

Learn About Microsoft KaizalaJan 15, 2018. Microsoft Kaizala is a mobile application designed for group communication and work management. It is used to efficiently manage the work or collect data from individuals or large groups, even if they are not part of the organization. It makes easy to connect and co-ordinate work with the field employers, vendors, partners and customer wherever they are.

Bulletproof Disposable Types In .NET CoreJan 14, 2018. Whenever I do code review on .NET projects, hands down the number one issue is developers not calling .Dispose() on disposable objects. Ever since .NET was released, I have been preaching how important this is. If not done properly, it’s most likely to create virtual memory issues that will eventually cause the application to stop and possibly freeze server or users’ computer.

Observables With Angular 5Jan 12, 2018. We have a case where we use observable to populate the UI from the external data asynchronously Angular uses same thing for this task let’s see how we can use the observables and use them in an angular application.

Preventing CSRF Attacks In ASP.NET Core 2.0Jan 12, 2018. OWASP 2013 classifies Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) as one of the Top 10 risks and is present if attacker can force the victim&#39;s browser to send forged request to your web application and it considers it a legitimate request.

Using XAML Progress Bar In WPFJan 12, 2018. Long running tasks in any application make the application or software nonresponsive. So to keep the user updated about the running task and also keep the application responsive during long running tasks we can use different kinds of loading bar options like.

SignalR Chat App With ASP.NET WebForm And BootStrap - Part ThreeJan 12, 2018. In a previous article we have learned how to create a real-time chat application using SignalR and Bootstrap. So far we learned creation of group chat, Creation of Private Chat, Title Bar Notification Alert system, Message Count and Clear Chat History. And now we are going to learn the most trending feature in Chat Application which is “Emoji” or “Smiley” which makes our application more interactive.

Configure Windows Authentication In ASP.NET CoreJan 11, 2018. Using Windows authentication, users are authenticated in ASP.NET Core application with help of operating system. Windows Authentication is a very useful in intranet application where users are in same domain.

How To Take Screenshot Using jQuery And PHPJan 10, 2018. Hello all, today in this article we will learn how to take screenshots using jquery and php. So, basically we will create a webpage and in the webpage we create a button which will take screenshot using the help of library called html2canvas . So once we take the screenshot we will save the screenshot in a json file using the help of jquery, javascript and php. We will be using for jquery and javascript to handel client side request and php to handel server side request. We will also learn about file handling using php.

Explore Azure Cosmos DB Without Azure SubscriptionJan 10, 2018. Azure Cosmos DB emulator is an exciting tool for getting started with Cosmos Db. This allows us to play with Cosmos DB without even having an Azure Subscription. That means you can write Cosmos DB code in your .net application and view your data on emulator.

How To Configure User Profile Service Application Step By StepJan 10, 2018. In the last article I described about how to delete and create User profile service, today I'm demonstrating about how to configure UPA service application step by step with a screen shot. This articles applies to SharePoint 2010, 2013 and 2016.

How To Remove And Create User Profile Service Application In SharePointJan 09, 2018. The purpose of this article to is to delete an existing UPA service from the SP server and create the same from scratch. As we know, there are two ways to configure or delete UPA server, Using UI and SharePoint PowerShell. We are going to delete and create UPA using UI.